Clothes-pin.



No. 880,819. PATENTED MAR'. 8, 1888.

P. H. PERRY.

CLOTHES PEN'.

APPLIUATION FILED 8813.18, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

FREDERICK H. PERRY, OF

BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS.

.CLOTHE S-PIN Specification of Letters Patent.' Application fuga february 19. 1906 serial N. 301159.

Patented March 3, 1908.

T o all whom it 'may concern."

Beit known that L-FEEDERICKH. PERRY,

a .citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Beverly, county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementlin Clothes-Pins, of which the following descripa tion, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is aspecification, like letters on the l drawings representing like-parts.

In my studies to 1mprove,simpliy, and at thesametime cheapen the construction yof clothes` pins, I have devised 4a clothes-pin of the construction hereinafterY described and claimed. l

Figure 1 shows my novel pinin its nor mallyclosed position; `Fig. 2s hows jthe pin as holding clothes on a line,'Fi 3 is aright hand side elevation of the pings own in Fig.,

1'; Fig'. 4 is -a topview. l

Thepin shownfis composed of two iece's A, B, of Wood shaped as'shown in Eig; 1"

where it will be seen that the Wood, the thickl ness o f which is shown atr its outer or head end, isreduced in thickness for `a part of its length, as'at a, b, to'form vspringy legs, the

eft ofjsuiiicientthickness to. form stops ai', b',

and beyond saidsto s each piece is recessed,

as at (19,52, to form a ne space, and the 'ends of the pieces are cut, as at a3, b3, to forni an open mouth leading lintothe iine space. The abutting ,3063 (LX, bx, of these Piees arethen laid together as shown in Fig. 1, and thereafter a binder or device d is applied to the head of the in Where the' material is laid together.

The inder is shown as a piece of-Wire with its ends inturned into one of the legs, as vshown by dotted lines in Fig. 4. The stops a', yb', serve as the inner end of the line space, and when the mouth of the pin is pushed onto cloth e on a line f the springy arms a', b',y

yield and hug the cloth firmly on the line; Asshownthe thickness of the pieces at the stops a', b', is greater than at any point on the free ends forming the mouth oi the pin. j

As a result of this construction it will readily be seen thatthe stops lcontact when the pin is' 0H the line and owing to their 'contacting' always insure that the mouth ci' the pin is suf# iciently open to be easily applied to the' line and be removed easily there' om, no part of the free ends contacting at any point. The

free end of each piece is interiorly shaped to present in the direction of its length a ,con-

portionsa, bof the curves forming -an open veX portionsmerge into the-concave portions present a `smooth and unbroken entrance vthereto from one to the other side of -the pin.

befreadilyiapplied tothe line to. clamp the any rther A movement o the line toward the head of the pin, but by 'the-smooth and con"- tinuous curvature Ifrom one to the other side ofthe pin the'lat'ter canbewithdrawn by ing or swinging 'of the pin i4 the direction of the vlength of f the clothes.

Having fully described my invention, what ters Patent is Woodpresenting abutting faces, a blnder surting facesv firmly together, each-piecepresent- 11ne space adjacent thereto, each piece being reduced-in thickness at lits inner side .between :the-abutting faces and saidfstoplto impart interiorly shaped to form. a continuousreverse'curve', the convex portions ofthe curves concave spacean entrance to and exit from',` such line .space from one -to the other side of th'ef' pinthe (portions which constitute 4the line tion ofthe free end forming the mouth, W ere by said freeends are' always separated.4

In testimony whereof, I have signed 'my two subscribing witnesses.

i .FREDERICK H. PERRY. "Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY,

EvANeELiNE4 C. BROWN..

tinuous reverse curve, the oppositeconvexmouth leading in to the line space, such cona?, b2 whichy constitutesuch linespace and This constnuctionnot onlyenables the pin to ingva. stop a5, t respectively, and partof'a- "the requisitespr-'ing7 and'` having its free 'end form/ing an open mouth leading intov the linespace, such convex portions merging into the 90 presenting asmooth and` unbroken.

thickness of eachof the pieces being greater` at the portion forming the stop than any or' name' to this specification, in thel presence ofA clothes thereon, the sto ls a', .b preventing a' direct pull'. I I. thereby'obviate any twistf 

